Biology – Quantitative Biology – Neurons and Cognition
Scientific paper
2009-02-23
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Neurons and Cognition
67 pages, 8 figures, corrected typos, changes for resubmission
Scientific paper
Population rate or activity equations are the foundation of a common approach to modeling for neural networks. These equations provide mean field dynamics for the firing rate or activity of neurons within a network given some connectivity. The shortcoming of these equations is that they take into account only the average firing rate while leaving out higher order statistics like correlations between firing. A stochastic theory of neural networks which includes statistics at all orders was recently formulated. We describe how this theory yields a systematic extension to population rate equations by introducing equations for correlations and appropriate coupling terms. Each level of the approximation yields closed equations, i.e. they depend only upon the mean and specific correlations of interest, without an {\it ad hoc} criterion for doing so. We show in an example of an all-to-all connected network how our system of generalized activity equations captures phenomena missed by the mean fieldrate equations alone.
Buice Michael A.
Chow Carson C.
Cowan Jack D.
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